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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by theandrewbailey on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @09:34AM (#22865720)
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_English
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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by cmrdporcupine on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @09:40AM (#22865795)
I'd be mostly fine with the huge bagload of loanwords if we could at least have a spelling system that made sense for our language, like we used to... 1000 years ago.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/English_spelling_reform

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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by adequateness on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @01:24PM (#22868721)
Do you propose adopting the shavian alphabet or just modifying spelling with the latin alphabet?
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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by cmrdporcupine on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @01:44PM (#22868990)
Latin alphabet but with some accents, and the eth/thorn/yogh/wynn/ash (ð/þ/Ȝ/ƿ/æ) characters that English used to have, and Icelandic still has some of.

[1] http://www.csun.edu/~sk36711/WWW/KAG/ch2.html

I'm sure everyone will start using it because I want them to ;-)

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